• 28 February 2018
    Guatemala: the forgotten women
    February 28, 2018
  • 23 February 2018
    "The 2005 massacre was not the end, it was just the beginning"
    February 23, 2018
  • 20 February 2018
    In her own words: Rosalinda Dionicio, United Peoples’ Network of the Ocotlán Valley, Mexico
    Rosalinda Dionicio is a leader of the United Peoples’ Network of the Ocotlán Valley in Defense of Territory. Since 2009, the organization has been demanding the closure of the San José mine, owned by a subsidiary of the Canadian company Fortuna Silver Mines, which they say has caused environmental destruction and water shortages in their communities. Rosalinda is a survivor of a 2012 attack by gunmen in which her colleague Bernardo Vásquez Sánchez was assassinated--one of many serious human rights violations suffered by the organization.
  • 15 February 2018
    Colombia's crisis: human rights defender killed every 48 hours on average
    February 15, 2018
  • 15 February 2018
    Guatemala Project updates: attacks on indigenous leaders, corruption
    February 15, 2018
  • 26 January 2018
    Land, Culture and Conflict
    January 26, 2018 See the report from PBI Colómbia here: Land, culture and conflict
  • 25 January 2018
    Mexico: The struggle of the Me’Phaa against mining
    January 25, 2018 An indigenous community from the region of La Montaña (state of Guerrero) have been waging a legal battle since 2011 to prevent their lands from being conceded to mining companies. The indigenous Me’phaa community lives in San Miguel del Progreso, or Júba Wajiín in their indigenous language. In the last seven years, they have obtained two legal protection mechanisms that have rendered a mining project practically null and void.
  • 24 January 2018
    Honduras: Land of corn and hydroelectric dams
    Martín Gómez is a small, slim man. He walks with confidence and you can see that he has planted corn and grain all his life. He lives in the middle of green mountains in Santa Elena, southern Honduras. Martín is part of the MILPAH indigenous movement, created in 2010 to defend land and the Lenca indigenous community, a predominant indigenous people in Honduras. A year after the organization was founded, the Honduran government approved a concession for the construction of the Los Encinos S.A. hydroelectric dam in Santa Elena on the Chinacla river.
  • 23 January 2018
    Alert: Attacks against HRDs in Honduras increase following elections
    January 22, 2018
  • 22 January 2018
    Report on implementation of Colombian peace treaty
    January 22, 2018 Peace Accord implementation has been slow and lacking in many areas, especially as the country has turned its attention to presidential elections, which will be held in Colombia on May 27th. Some progress, however, has been made. Luz Marina Monzon has been appointed head of the Search Unit for Disappeared Persons (Unidad de Busqueada para las Personas Desaparecidas), which must be set up as mandated by the Peace Accords.

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